All adults aged 60 and older should be vaccinated against shingles, a skin rash caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended on Thursday.

The ZOSTAVAX vaccine for shingles reduces the chance of developing shingles for those 60 and up, though the odds get worse with increasing age. The vaccination was recommended by an influential government advisory panel in 2006. The CDC officially adopted the recommendation this week.

A nine-year-old in Greece suffering from stomach pain was found to be unknowingly carrying her embryonic twin.

Doctors at Larissa General Hospital surgically removed the fetus of an undeveloped twin, which was more than two inches long.

A University of Utah physician and his research team will be honored this weekend for demonstrating how magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used during atrial fibrillation (AF) procedures.

Dr. Nassir Marrouche, Dr. Marcos Daccarett and their colleagues will be presented the Eric N. Prystowsky Fellow Clinical Research award at the Heart Rhythm 2008 conference this weekend in San Francisco.

Add kidney stones to the list of thing global warming will affect, according to researchers.

Scientists announced Thursday that studies have revealed rising global temperatures may increase the incidences of kidney stones because global warming will probably increase incidences of dehydration, and dehydration has been linked to stone disease, particularly in warmer climates.

Chemicals present in baby bottles or plastic food wraps can lead to problems like obesity in children when they grow up, three new studies have found. Experts believe that the new revelations could change the view how obesity is viewed and dealt with.

The studies from United States National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Tufts University were presented Wednesday at the European Congress on Obesity in Geneva. Researchers found that when mice were exposed to these chemicals during early development, it lead them to become obese in later life.